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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Today's cd/Darius Rucker - Learn To Live

The very best of country albums make the listener feel happy, sad, and thankful. There are songs you can sing along with yet never get sick of. This cd has every one of those facets. I don't know when I've loved a country album quite this much. It all begins with the voice. Darius Rucker has one of my favorite voices in music. The songs are rocky and they are quiet. He sings about love and breaking up and parenting and his late mother.

From Learn To Live:

Grandpa Campbell would sit upon his front porchAnd I'd be right there, just sittin' on his kneeHe'd tell stories of love and feast and famineAnd I'd hang on to every word that he would breatheHe said, boy as you walk through this lifeHere's a little wisdom that'll help you get byYou gotta live and learnYou gotta crash and burnYou gotta make some stancesAnd take some chancesYou gotta live and loveAnd take all life has to giveYou gotta live and learnSo you can learn to live

Here is my favorite song on the album.

His latest, Charleston SC, 1966, just came out, and you can bet I'll be buying it.